– Chinmayi Bhavani Shankar By one definition, autism is defined as a developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects the brain’s normal development of social and communication skills. At first glance, it seems relatively harmless. It doesn’t affect regular bodily functions, it doesn’t cause deformities, and it just affects…
– Abraham Pabbathi 1.5 million, that’s the number of kids who go to sleep without a home each year. No we are not talking about some third world country; these are statistics from America (homelesschildrenamerica.org). Most of these kids don’t know where their next meal is going to come from. Most of these kids are…
Vibha in association with Sikshana conducted a 4 day outreach workshop from 8th to the 11th of July 2010. The main objective of this workshop was to create an opportunity where the Sikshana model could be demonstrated as a learning model to other like-minded players in the field of education. The intended strategy was to…
Navjyoti India Foundation was established in 1988 by Kiran Bedi and a group of police officers to promote welfare policing which resulted in the drug de-addiction program. Since then Navjyoti has focused on a wide variety of issues such as education, women empowerment, family counseling, rural and urban development, health, HIV/AIDS, environment. Over 12,000 people…
On March 05, 2011, approximately 800 Atlanta area residents braved cold weather to watch Vibe 2011 at the Rialto Center for Arts at Georgia State University. VIBE 2011 was perhaps Atlanta’s first International Dance Festival involving some of the very best from Atlanta’s dance world. This event gave a platform to over a hundred artists,…
– E S Ramamurthy [Founder of Sikshana Foundation] I visited the school at Kothavarapalle in the Madanapalle cluster recently. This one looked no different from the others till I saw a box in the office marked ‘Life Line’. Curiosity drove me to ask the HM what this so-called life line was about. She told me…
– Ramesh Kasondra and Vijay Vemulapalli Vibha-Sikshana partnership has crossed another milestone. Vibha approved a new project with GVT (Gram Vikas Trust) in Gujarat implementing Sikshana model in 15 schools, starting October 2010. This is the direct result of the 4-day workshop Vibha jointly conducted with Sikshana in July 2010. This is the second time…
Vibha has been supporting Door Step School(DSS) for the past few years. In 2010, Vibha provided over 65K in funds to DSS. Vibha’s involvement with DSS is not just limited to funding though. Vibha also provides guidance and innovative ideas to DSS. Vibha volunteer Mukesh recently visited DSS and some of its sites to carry…
